The ad is simple – it’s the actual audio from the Guardian reporter who Gianforte is charged with assaulting, according to the Fox News team who witnessed the event, after reporter Ben Jacobs asked Gianforte about the CBO Score for the American Health Care Act,…

Dozens of national news outlets are now reporting on the dark turn today’s special congressional election took when GOP candidate Greg Gianforte is alleged to have assaulted a reporter who Gianforte a question about the Congressional Budget Office scoring of Trump’s health care repeal bill, the…

By Justin Robbins Time is fleeting as we fast approach a May 25 special election to fill Montana’s lone congressional seat, vacated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke; already famous for forgetting his Metro pass on the first day at his new job. Following the Montana…

Republicans are sick of New Jersey Gianforte. He’s a loser. He’s a New Jersey Billionaire His views are extremist. Don’t take my word for it, read it from a major Republican blog printed below. Here’s the link: No Gianforte Why Republicans Should Say, “Thanks, But…

The person who was somehow elected as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in November with little or no name recognition, knowledge of the position, or support from really anyone has decided to eliminate an immensely successful program from the OPI website and has disappeared…

You wouldn’t expect a gubernatorial candidate to be measuring the drapes when the most recent poll has him trailing by 12 points, and yet Cowgirl Blog has confirmed that Greg Gianforte has tapped Scott Mendenhall, former legislator and right-wing nutjob from Whitehall, to prepare a “transition” plan….

–Greg Martin, Missoula, MT Few things are more dishonest than Greg Gianforte’s recent ad suggesting that Muslim terrorists might sneak into Montana with the complicity of Steve Bullock. To produce an ad like this, his campaign demonstrates a combination of 1) ignorance about the duties of…

Here is the new Cowgirl Polling Average, a rolling average of a half-dozen polls in the last two weeks up through Monday 10/31 whose results have been obtained by the Cowgirl Blog: Bullock 48.1 Gianforte 41.5 Dunlap 3.8 Undecided 6.6 This average includes a collection of…

Montana Judge John McKeon is the subject of national outrage after giving a 2 month sentence to a Montana man found guilty of repeatedly raping his 12-year-old daughter. As NPR reports: The plea agreement recommended a prison sentence of 100 years with 75 years suspended, so the defendant…

My grandfather, Bill Mackay Sr.’s Eisenhower Republican values wove around the dinner table connecting us like matching china. Value local people and local control. Serve. Reach across the aisle. The best legislation requires compromise. Be kind. Your words matter.

He who can be made to believe absurdities, can be made to commit atrocities – Voltaire

Ever since our species (Homo sapiens) crossed whatever the threshold was between an instinctual level of consciousness and being cognitively self-aware, we have invented mythologies to explain the things we otherwise cannot. This seems true of every culture or societal construct we now know, or have ever known.

It’s time for Montana to acknowledge that the horrid practice which results in the animal’s leg being crushed and the creature left to lie in agony for days before dying is cruel and barbaric. And yes, such traps also frequently ensnare and torture animals such as dogs as well as endangered species such as bald eagles lynx, despite the idiotic protestations we hear from those who believe the torture of animals is an enjoyable pastime.